Pick counter for looms



A. H. MORTON PICK COUNTER FOR LOOMS Dec. 25, 1923.

Filed ADril 29. 1922 of Massachusetts, have others skilled in the artapply pick counters to looms,

such counters.

is subjected are of the Patented Dec. 25, 1923.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT H. MORTON, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

PICK COUNTER FOR -LOOMTS.

Application filed April 29, 1922. Serial No. 557,292.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. MORTON, a citizen of the United States,residin'g at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State inventedcertain new and useful Improvements'in Pick Counters for Looms; and I dohereby declare the following to b a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the. invention, such as will enable to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

The present invention relates to an improvement in pick counters forlooms.

A great many attempts have been made to but every such attempt, so faras I am aware, has ultimately failed because the excessive vibration ofthe loom in operation has eventually destroyed, worn out or renderedinoperative Pick counters have been applied to looms made of the moststurdy construction, and great strength and durability, but theexcessive vibration and racking due to the operation of the loom hasworn them 25 out or destroyed them in a comparatively short space oftime. The object of the present invention is to produce a pick counterfor looms of a new construction such that the vibrations and blows towhich the loom revented from being transmitted to the pic counter bypick counter from the loom frame by resilient means. To the above endsthe present invention consists in the pick counter 85 hereinafterdescribed and particularly defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred form of the,invention, Fig. 1

is a perspective view from the rear, showing 40 a part of the loom withthe improved pick counter in position thereon; Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the pick counter, showing the channel of the frame to whichit is attached in section; and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view pick counterbracket.

The illustrated embodiment of the invention is described as follows: Thepick counter 1 is mounted on a bracket 2, secured to the arch 3 of theloom. It is connected by a flexible shaft enclosed in an armored casing4 with the lay shaft of the loom,-a hand wheel 5 on the lay shaft beingshown. The

supporting the the lateral and pick counter proper 1 may be of any usualor preferred construction. In the illustrated em odiment of theinvention it is provided on one end with a boss 10, to which itssupporting bracket is attached, and on the other end with a boss 11, towhich the flexible shaft and armored casing are attached. The bracket 2consists of a strip of flexible metal fastened at one end by means ofrivets 12 to the stud 13, the shank 14 of which pene trates a hole inthe flange 15 of the arch 3 of the 100111. The shank 14 is secured inplace by a nut 16. The other end of the bracket is attached to the boss10 of the counter by means of the cap screw 17. The bracket 2 is twistedbetween its ends so that lateral vibrations will be taken care of by theflat in one plane, while longitudinal vibrations may be taken care of bythe flat in the other plane. Thus the vibrations both lateral andlongitudinal of the loom frame are only transmitted to the pick counterby means of this resilient bracket, which absorbs and reduces andmodifies the effect of such vibrations and blows upon the pick counter.

It is'to be understood that the present invention is broad and genericin character, and that it includes within its purview any form of pickcounter which is supported from the frame of the loom by resilient meansoperating to prevent the direct transmission to the counter proper ofthe blows, vibrations or shocks to which the frame is sulfl'ected inoperation.

aving thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A pick counter for looms, comprising a counter proper, and aresilient sup ort for attaching the counter to the frame 0 a loom, saidcounter having different portions for absorbing the lateral andlongitudinal vibrations of the loom frame.

2. A pick counter for looms, comprising a counter proper, and aresilient supportlng member for attachin'g the counter to the frame of aloom, said supporting member havin separate portions thereof disposed indifferent planes for respectively absorbing longitudinal vibrations ofthe ALBERT H. MORTON.

loom frame.

